Greasemonkey is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox which can run so called userscripts that can change elements and information on websites in real-time. Some prime examples include link checkers, removing elements on a website or embedding price comparison information on shopping pages. Since then Greasemonkey has been expanded and – at least – been [...]

Categories: Browsing, ie

Google Multi-Column View is a Greasemonkey script that can display Google search results in two or three different columns instead of the default display. Doing that can be extremely useful for users with widescreen monitors who want to use all of the screen estate when working with Google. A test on a 1920×1200 LCD monitor [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google, The Web

One of the elementary things that the Google browser is missing is support for some kind of plugins or extensions that Firefox offers for a long time. Google announced plans to support an extension API in later builds of the web browser but it currently lacks that support and that could be one of the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Netload.in is one of the largest file hosters on the Internet offering to host files with a size of up to 400 Megabytes. It’s reliable and offers very nice speeds most of the time. The system has a downside as well. It servers popup, or more precisely popunder, ads frequently. Adblock Plus for example was [...]

Categories: Firefox, The Web

If you take a look at the official Greasemonkey page at Mozilla you notice that there have not been any updates posted for the last five months. The latest version of Firefox that Greasemonkey is compatible with is Firefox 3 beta 5 and users may have asked themselves why no new versions have been uploaded [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Adam Pash is a Senior Editor at Lifehacker and also someone who likes to code. His latest gorgeous application is a Greasemonkey script called Google Inline MP3 Player which, once installed, displays a [Play] link next to each mp3 link on a website. A click on that Play link embeds an inline mp3 player, more [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Music and Video

If you perform a search at Yahoo you will notice that the links to the websites are redirects from a Yahoo server starting with rds.yahoo.com. This is quite confusing especially if you want to take a quick look at the url of the destination website. This also means that the loading time of those websites [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, The Web

Until recently all videos provided by Youtube were encoded as flash videos in the format .flv. With the recent addition of high resolution videos, or lets say higher resolutions than before, Youtube now provides mp4 videos of most videos on site as well. Now if you download videos directly from Youtube with the common methods [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, ie, Music and Video, Online Services, Opera

If you print a website you notice that the urls of the links contained on the website are not added to the printout, only the link anchor text is included obviously. It sometimes makes a lot of sense to print the urls as well and a Greasemonkey script named Annotate Links can do that for you.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox